Maitama Sule University, Kano

Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano
Former names
Northwest University Kano
Type Public
Established 2012
Chancellor

Alh. Isma'ila Muhammad Mera, CON

Emir of Argungu
Vice-Chancellor Professor Mustapha Ahmad Isah
Location Kano, Kano State, Nigeria
Campus Urban
Nickname MSU
Affiliations NUC, ASUU
Website www.nwu.edu.ng

Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano, formerly Northwest University Kano is a Kano State Government-owned university with a temporary campus located at the center of the city of Kano and a main campus located along Gwarzo Road. It is one of the universities established in Nigeria in 2012 which are overseen and accredited by the NUC National Universities Commission.[1]

History

The Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano was established in 2012 by the administration of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso by way of promoting and enhancing the country's-old prominence of the North-West as both cynosure and pacesetter in the fields of learning and scholarship not only in West Africa, but throughout the continent and beyond.[2]

References

  1. "National Universities Commission".
  2. "nwuportal.com".

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